When you watch The Bleak Old Shop Of Stuff This Christmas remember that it was hand carved on a genuine Victorian non-linear editing platform and composited using exactly the same node-based technology that a 19th century Shake compositor would have used.
plugging an even better handheld computer into the back of a DSLR is nothing but a bonus. Rather than attaching lenses to my phone, what I’d really love to have is a dock for an iPhone to connect direct to the DSLR.
There’s something clunky about a computer screen when it comes to rearranging production strips, something unnatural. Once everything was off the desktop and onto the table top things got a lot easier. So the thought of an app that would enable me to recreate this fingertip shuffling process in the digital realm made me very excited.
Andy posted this in the Shooting People Screenwriter’s Forum but I had to reblog it as it’s clearly one of the smartest, sweetest and simplest shorts ever made.
For a 6th of the price of the fully-featured Movie*Slate, the DSLR-Toolkit offers a diverse range of gadgets which are well suited to someone making their first few films.
This is a great app which takes the moderately convenient idea of a clapperboard on your iPhone and turns it into an amazing tool for allowing a group of people to share their notes on the day’s shooting.
Far too often when people talk about “craft” they confuse the skill of making something with the ability to use a tool. Of course being able to point your auto-focusing DSLR at the sunset and throw that footage into any iteration of FCP is not the same as being an amazing filmmaker. The same is true though of shooting that sunset with a 35mm camera and editing the rushes with a razor blade. Yes the celluloid root is harder and employs more people but only someone simple imagines that complexity automatically confers class.
After years of anticipation, finally Apple have announced an update of Final Cut Pro, their non-linear edit package which, 12 years ago, was the first digital cutter that really combined affordability and stability. More than any other innovation, FCP is what ushered in the digital age of filmmaking – with amateurs like my brother and I finally able to cut our digitally originated films on our home computers in a way that was easy and effective. In recent years though…
> Many producers, with an eye to revenues, will try to > tell you otherwise – that you can shoot 2D and 3D at the same > time. I believe they are fundamentally wrong, and their > thinking that way will produce compromises that will (more > often than not) hinder the acceptance of 3D. It’s an issue > that, as 3D techniques evolve, will receive increasing debate. This, taken from Karel Bata’s long post in Shooting People’s Filmmakers Network…
